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From: The Serbian Unity Congress Server at http://www.suc.org

APRIL 23 1997 DAY

NEWS REVIEW, REPUBLIKA SRPSKA

BANJALUKA - The president of Republika Srpska (RS), Biljana Plavsic, talked in Banjaluka with the representative of the Russian Federation to Sarajevo, Yakov Gerasimov on the implementation of the Dayton agreement, with the stress on the applying of the decision on arbitration in the Brcko area. The communique issued from the president Plavsic's Cabinet says that the recently adopted Law on Central Bank and the attitude of the international community towards RS were also dealt with at the meeting.

SARAJEVO - The spokesman and special advisor to the High Representative Office, Michael Mackley, assessed in Pale that in the event that no progress is made in the process of the economic reform in 1997, then probably the international aid to RS and the Federation of B&H will not be distributed. He warned at a news conference that if this proves to be the case then the economic and social crisis may be worsened.

SARAJEVO - The OSCE sub-Commission of media experts unanimously dropped the accusations of the representatives of the Croatian authorities in Drvar, who are blaming the Serbs for two explosions that occurred in the downtown on March 28. According to the OSCE's communique, the sub-Commission made a decision on that the mayor of Drvar is to apologise to the Serbs in public and stress that he has no evidence on the Serb involvement in the planting of explosive devices.

ZVORNIK - Tomorrow, at about 12:00 hrs, the chairman of the Grand Jury of the Court in Zvornik, Petar Stjepanovic, is expected to announce the verdict to seven Muslims from Srebrenica, who are accused of killing of four Serbs from Milici in 1996. A pathologist, Zoran Stankovic proved irrefutably that the discovered bodies of the two Serbs were cut by an axe and a motor-saw, and afterwards burnt.

BELGRADE - The refugees in Yugoslavia and Croatia, who are to vote at the upcoming municipal elections in RS and the FB&H, should register themselves from May 5 to June 7, 1997. The Republic of Serbia Commissariats for Refugees announced that the voters can make a choice whether to vote in the municipality in which they are listed in 1991, or in the municipality they intend to live in.

HAGUE - The defence attorneys of three Muslims, who are being tried before the Hague Tribunal because they terrorised the Serb prisoners in the Celebici camp, pledged a letter of protest to the Court because of the writing of the Serbian press about the process, believing that those articles "are prejudicing a verdict and are openly suggesting that the accused are guilty'.

HAMBURG - Before the talks held between Serbs and Albanians in New York, a similar, but less noticeable, meeting took place in Munich, writes the German paper 'Junge Welt', warning that all of this is causing suspicion that a coordinated US-German action against the integrity of Serbia and FR of Yugoslavia is obviously dealt here with. The paper points out that none of the opposition representatives took part at the preliminary meeting in Munich, but some politicians close to the Serbian government were present.

MOSCOW - The presidents of Russia and China, Boris Yeltsin and Jiang Zemin, respectively, signed in Kremlin a joint Declaration on multipolar world order, reports DPA citing the Itartas agency.

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